Blog Session 8 Your Blogging Experience

Blog Session 8. Write about you Blogging Experience


- Did you enjoy it? Why? Why not?

Let’s see… my level of English isn’t the better, so it wasn’t easy for me writing the tasks. For this reason mostly I had to finish the task in my house because the time of the class is not enough for me (because I’m a person that thinks a lot in what she will write and it takes me longer if is in other languages). And sometimes I didn’t have time necessary for do it. But, apart from that, I have to say that is not so bad, because some of the topics are very interesting. Moreover I always wanted to have a blog, but I’m a very lazy girl.


- Did it help you improve your English?
I hope so. Really I don’t know, but I think yes, because some tasks had word that I didn’t know and for make this tasks I had to find what this words means. And in this way I improve my vocabulary.

- Give your opinion of the advantages and disadvantages of blogging in the English class.

I think that the advantages of blogging are: We can express our opinions freely, we can read what our classmates wrote and we can share opinions, we can choose the design of the blog, we can learn new words.

I think that the disadvantages of blogging are: We can’t choose the topic and sometimes we have to talk about something that maybe we aren’t interested or don’t know anything about this and we must quickly form an opinion at this time. I think that also is bad that the task have a minimum number of words because maybe in two sentences I say all what I think about a topic and other person needs 500 words to say it.

Blog 7 The best in your area

I think the best in my area is Pablo Ruiz-Tagle Vial.

He’s professor of Constitutional Law and Introduction to Law at the Faculty of the University of Chile. At Yale University received the degree of Master of Laws in 1988 and in 1995 his degree of Doctor of Laws. He is a member of the Study Larrain and Associates.

He has published several articles and books, such as “Revisión Crítica del derecho” (1990), “Derecho, Justicia y Libertad” (2002), “La república en Chile” (2007), among others.

He was part of the team that defended the right to freedom of expression in the case of the film “Temptation of Christ”, and he was nominated for to be “Contralor General de la República”.

These are just some of the important milestones in his career, but are so many to mention here.

I like him because he is a good professor. I enjoyed his classes very much. For me, meet with a teacher as Pablo Ruiz Tagle was both, a blessing and a curse. It was a curse because I study at a public school with a very low level of difficulty, and meet this professor at the first year of my career it wasn’t easy at all, because he makes you read a lot, I mean REALLY a lot of pages, and I wasn’t used to read SO much. But, also meet him is a blessing, for several reasons: first, I think that taking his classes I am prepared to pass any course. (Yeah … it was really difficult to me); second, most of his classes were very entertaining, because he is very sarcastic and humorous and telling stories sometimes; third, I think that I really learned a lot with him.

He is the best because he’s a great professor and a great lawyer that defend human rights and because he teaches me something very important: Always wary of the power.

Blog 6 Talk review on creativity

Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. He says that all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly. He says that creativity is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status. And I completely agree with Sir Ken Robinson.

In schools of Chile, as in every place in the world, teach you obedience and respect, punctuality and discipline. And I’m not saying that is wrong, but who cares about being spontaneous or creative? I always thought that so many rules only achieve to uniform like all of us were robots with the same serial number.

He says that if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’re never come up with anything original. The children lost this capacity when they become in adults. He says that we’re now running national education system where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And this is sad but true. Is for this reason that most people—I am—are afraid to make mistakes, afraid to be wrong. And the result is that we are educating people out of their creativity capacities.

He says that arts are as important that math or languages for the education. The schools shouldn’t steer away from thing that you like just because you never get a job doing that. Because nobody knows the future. And maybe you can be a dancer or a singer or anything you want.

Well, the idea of Sir Ken Robinson is that we have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we’re educating our children. And our task is to educate their whole being, so they can face this future.

Sir Ken Robinson in his talks he keeps audience paying attention to him with funny stories and jokes. It’s really nice to see his presentation.